Resume

Software & Security Engineer · 5+ years in defense and aerospace · CISSP · Huntsville, AL

Experience

Product Security Engineer III · Apr 2025 – Present

Pentest and assess the security of DoD systems as a member of a cyber test team.
Find novel vulnerabilities in custom systems; write proofs of concept and verify fixes.
Lead week-long cyber test cycles end to end, turning test objectives into attack cases.
Build Python fuzzers and reverse engineer custom binaries and protocols to find vulnerabilities.
Serve as a trusted agent between external red and blue teams and program security leadership.
Use local LLMs to speed up code review, log triage, and reporting.
Mentor engineers across teams in Python and pentesting; lead approvals for security and development tools.

Product Security Engineer II · Aug 2023 – Mar 2025

Built a Python message analyzer on my own that enabled new types of testing; won a program innovation award.
Used source code and software assurance results to focus pentests on the riskiest components.
Gave subject-matter input on threat modeling and risk scoring; led cyber tabletop exercises that set test objectives.
Drove team-wide Git adoption, centralizing exploits, scripts, and test data in a shared repository.
Served as Scrum Master for multiple security teams and briefed leadership at quarterly planning events.

Software Engineer & Founder · Jul 2022 – Aug 2023

Full-time between Northrop Grumman and Boeing; part-time outside these dates.

Founded a software studio; designed and built 7+ C++ and C# projects end to end.
Built a Roslyn C# compiler plugin that replaced runtime reflection, cutting 10K+ lines of code.
Engineered client-server networking and state sync in C++ and C# with the Unreal and Steam SDKs.
Built a secrets-managed CI/CD pipeline that auto-releases Windows, Mac, and Linux builds, saving about 5 hours a week.
Wrote infrastructure-as-code for cloud build servers, cutting recovery time from a day to under an hour.

Cyber Systems Engineer I · Jan 2021 – Jul 2022

Managed a software assurance platform; built Python and JavaScript change-approval pipelines.
Assessed 400+ software and hardware changes for security, advising the change control board on approvals and redesigns.
Wrote Python scans that removed controlled data from thousands of systems, shrinking compliance scope.

Software Engineer Intern · May 2020 – Aug 2020

Wrote Python scripts that cut setup time between test cycles, and built simulations for space systems testing.

Languages: Python, C, C++, C#, Java, Bash. Familiar with Go, Rust, JavaScript, PowerShell, Ada.
Application security: OWASP Top 10, threat modeling, secure code review, fuzzing.
Reverse engineering: Ghidra, GDB, binary analysis, exploit development, memory safety.
Software engineering: networking, concurrency, REST APIs, SQL, unit testing, OOP, debugging.
AI: Claude, GPT, agentic coding, prompt engineering, local LLM deployment, model quantization.
DevOps and cloud: Git, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, VM provisioning, AWS.
Tools: Unreal Engine 5, Unity, .NET, Roslyn, Wireshark, Nmap, Nessus, Splunk, Black Duck, SonarQube.

M.S., Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, Western Governors University, 2024
B.S., Computer Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2020

ISC2 CISSP · CompTIA SecurityX (formerly CASP+) · CompTIA CySA+ · CompTIA PenTest+ · CompTIA Security+

PLAN-IT, NASA Space Apps 2019: 1st place global winner. Led a team that built an educational astrophysics game in Unity and C#, and pitched it to an audience of 3,000+. Play it on itch.io.
Post-quantum cryptography, Hacking for Defense (2020). Evaluated candidate post-quantum encryption algorithms and contributed to a whitepaper informing U.S. cryptography standardization.
Vice President, UAH Cybersecurity Club (2020). Ran 4+ ethical hacking competitions a semester and weekly workshops for 25+ students.
Student mentor, ACM (2019–2023). Mentored university students on resumes, interviews, certifications, hackathons, and game jams.